The BBC provides S4C’s news services, sports coverage and its daily drama series Pobol y Cwm An announcement is expected on Wednesday that the BBC is to take over funding for Welsh-language channel S4C.
It is unclear if it will be asked to meet the whole of the current £100m budget, but the channel would remain operationally separate from the BBC.
UK government sources have told BBC Wales it would retain its “operational independence” and there is no question of the BBC “taking over” S4C.
A source said details remained to be worked out.
Meetings in Whitehall to decide the new structure were taking place as late as lunchtime on Tuesday, said the source.
BBC Wales understands that members of the S4C executive and authority are meeting to consider their response.
There are no details whether they have yet been fully briefed on the situation.
The Guardian is reporting that under the terms of the deal struck between the UK government and the BBC, the BBC would take over funding for S4C from 2015.
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